Tonight I'm going to hit on another topic I have seen discussed many times in these blogs: the mystery of Anakin's birth. As you all probably know by now, I try to focus my blog entries on taking Star Wars mysteries and combining them with the few facts we have to create the most plausible theory possible. Here we go again!

There have been a lot of blogs about Palpatine and his plans lately, so let's begin tonight with that theory:

Palpatine created Anakin.

He created a plan to take over the galaxy that took a multitude of years, so it seems to me that it is plausible for him to have planned something like this. Of course, that would mean that not only was Plageuis his master, but that he did, in fact, learn the secrets of life. In addition to this, he would have had to have enough foresight to see that the Jedi would have trouble with the Hyperdrive core while leaving Naboo, and that they would go to Watto's particular shop to find what they needed. Then, he would have had to go through all the trouble of creating a boy and leaving him there to be found by the Jedi in hopes that he could turn the boy to the darkside and find a way to easily destroy his own current apprentice. Hmm... sounds like a few too many stretches for me.

If Palpatine could see far enough into the future to create a boy and know how he would turn out over fifteen years later, he probably could have seen his death coming at Luke's hand and prevented it. He could also have prevented Anakin's extreme injuries on Mustafar. So in the end, this theory seems a little ridiculous to me. It's too many stretches and too many things we simply have never seen Palpatine do.

I do not believe that Palpatine could have possibly created Anakin.

So let's move back a generation to our next theory:

Plageuis created Anakin.

Not much is known about Plageuis, so here we truly get into some deep speculation. As with Palpatine above, I do not believe that it would be possible for Plageuis to have seen far enough into the future to purposefully set up the Jedi's fall through his apprentice. However, in most of the theories I've read about this, Plageuis has learned to create life and is thus trying to create the ultimate Force user with no specific goal in mind. He simply is trying to make a being that could be the ulitmate Sith Lord. This is much more in the realm of possibility if Palpatine told Anakin the truth about Plageuis discovering the secret of life itself.

So let's say Plageuis picked various subjects to try his experiments on, slowly working towards the goal of creating a being with a sky high midichlorian count. It isn't really that much of a stretch for him to have picked a slave for one experiment simply because he could have paid to use one without many people finding out or objecting. So he uses the force to impregnate Shmi and erase any memory she has of it. Then he leaves, keeping a watch on his experiment from a distance until Palpatine kills him in the rightful order of the Sith. Maybe Palpatine was his ultimate creation. Who knows? But this theory seems plausible to me as I haven't found any way to negate it except that Lucas seems to have intended the force itself to be a spiritual sort of thing and given it sole power over life and death. Thus, no one could achieve this power.

Other than that though, this theory seems sound. So I'm going to call this one possible.

Plageuis could have created Anakin.

And once again one of my entries is getting long just as I've reached the halfway point, so I'm going to have to wrap it up for tonight. I'll be back tomorrow with the second half of this entry, "The True Birth of Anakin Skywalker" in which I'll address the commonly accepted theory that he was created by the will of the force, and the much more obscure theory that perhaps Shmi simply lied for the good of her son. In the end, we'll decide on the most likely method in which our chosen one was born!

See you tomorrow night!

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